Heat wave heightens danger in an already epic summer of fire
A heat wave expected to last into next week has heightened the danger in what is already an epic summer of California wildfires.
A heat wave expected to last into next week has heightened the danger in what is already an epic summer of California wildfires.
After Mitt Romney lost the 2012 presidential election, Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus commissioned an autopsy to determine what had gone wrong. High on the list: a yawning gender gap. Romney won the votes of most men but lost among female voters by 11 percentage points; among single women,...
Civil rights lawyers have warned Los Angeles lawmakers that their new homeless sweeps laws are unconstitutional and could subject the city to "legal liability."
The ashes of Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez are heading to the country of his birth, Colombia.
One early morning shift, Jose Melena stepped into a 35-foot-long cylindrical oven at the Bumble Bee Foods plant in Santa Fe Springs. As the 62-year-old father of six made repairs inside, fellow employees loaded carts carrying about 12,000 pounds of tuna into the oven, closed its door and turned...
The flow of water from shower heads and bathroom faucets in California will be sharply reduced under strict new limits approved Wednesday by the state Energy Commission.
Kristen Stewart is playing the ambiguity game and she's embracing it, especially when it comes to her sexual orientation.
A gunman wanted for killing a retired dentist and wounding two Kern County sheriff's deputies is believed to be alive and hiding in the wilderness near Lake Isabella.
Whirrs, bloops and pings greet visitors inside a darkened non-nondescript, corporate-friendly ballroom. Half hotel, half life-sized reproduction of the famous bridge of the NCC-1701, this is Starfleet's flagship Constitution Class vessel of exploration, the Enterprise.
Dontey Carter stood at the head of a column of protesters screaming at police on West Florissant Avenue, the scene illuminated by street lamps, photographers' flashes and the fluttering spotlight of a surveillance helicopter.
McJobs and McG, cubicle culture and cougars, true love and weird roommates all jockey for space in ABC Family's "Kevin From Work," a bawdy but strangely mild millennial-angst comedy that fades from memory as swiftly as a Snapchat post.
There was a man missing from Jeb Bush's foreign policy speech Tuesday night at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library -- the man who started the war in Iraq that Bush essentially blamed on those who inherited it, namely President Obama and his first secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Democratic pollster Celinda Lake has been asking voters how much they trust Hillary Rodham Clinton for more than two decades. So when she recently asked a group of 10 young people about the issue, her questions naturally turned to Whitewater, the Arkansas land deal turned White House scandal of...
About seven years ago, the former record producer Alan Elliott received a call from Sydney Pollack. The director was very ill, and he had a request of Elliott, who had done some early work with Pollack on the filmmaker's unfinished 1972 Aretha Franklin concert movie at Warner Bros.
Deep in a desolate, rocky canyon, about 10 miles from the nearest paved road and even farther from any power line, Altai Davaa and her brother, Tsagaana, eke out a simple life. They sleep in a traditional Mongolian yurt, cook over a wood-fire stove, burn animal dung for fuel and use an outhouse....
Southern California is in the car business again.
President Obama called again Wednesday for restoration of all provisions of the Voting Rights Act in a letter to the editor of the New York Times magazine in response to a recent story on the law.
An elderly South Korean man set himself on fire on Wednesday outside of Seoul's Japanese embassy during a protest by so-called "comfort women," survivors of enslavement at Japanese military brothels during World War II.
Fellow live-fire fans, This is the sweetest time of summer. Near the ocean, the mornings are cool and overcast; the sun breaks through around 11 a.m. and burns clear and bright. It gets hot - not hot enough to be miserable, but just hot enough that when the cool evening breezes begin to stir you...
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"The Man From U.N.C.L.E.": In the Classic Hollywood feature in the Aug. 9 Calendar section about the 1960s TV series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," the first name of David McCallum's character, Illya Kuryakin, was misspelled in both the article and a caption as Ilya.
For a guy who's supposed to be on the hot seat, Dodgers Manager Don Mattingly seemed awfully cool Tuesday afternoon.
Four young people wanted for questioning have turned themselves in and are cooperating as police investigate an incident in which someone revved a leaf blower in a Newport Beach theater, police said Tuesday.
Tre Madden showed no signs of hesitation in the first four days of USC's training camp.
The most joyless first-place team in baseball took the field Tuesday down the road from a giant Sandy Koufax bobblehead-night billboard.